Colin Haley specializes in climbing the world's largest and steepest mountain faces. They require the cardiovascular fitness needed to summit Mount Everest and the carefully honed technique required to climb Yosemite's El Capitan. Sherpas don't haul loads to established high camps. Haley doesn't rely on the fixed ropes that run like ladders up the 8,000 meter peaks.
I think Katie is temperamentally wrong as an evening news anchor the position stifles her exuberance but I do think CBS News bears much of the blame. First of all, though the Journal claims that "CBS had hoped to recast Ms. Couric this year as a populist political anchor", the multimillionaire is about as much of a populist at this point as 10,700 square foot mansion owning John Edwards is. (I know that she probably had a big working class female audience as an anchor on Today, but her semi recent glamorous makeover and the big bucks she's making at CBS make her "populism" a difficult product to sel